Toddlers Should Not Be Able To Participate In Beauty Pageants

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I plan to discuss: Toddlers should not be able to participate in beauty pageants. This issue is valid because these young children are placed on a stage to be judged by adults. Do you enjoy watching young children be placed on a stage to be judged on their physical appearance and skills by random men and women? We live in such a world that projects statements such as “Be yourself, accept your natural beauty”, but beauty pageants cause toddlers to grow up learning that you have to have pounds of makeup and no flaws to be beautiful. I would introduce this issue to an audience who knew nothing about this topic by giving them information of what beauty pageants are and why this is a problem. Beauty pageants are a popular worldwide event. Such pageants, like Miss Universe, are quite entertaining and one of my favorites. Yet, once young girls have caked makeup and fake teeth it becomes distasteful. This then becomes a controversial topic. The problem that some people have with beauty pageants, is that young children are able to enter into these competitions. Their opponents are also other children in their age groups. …show more content…

Factors such as, “who is prettier?” or “who has more or better skills?” are the ones the judges base their scoring off of. As I was growing up, I was taught “Not to judge a book by its cover”, but once you see a child in a beauty pageant, that’s what the judges are doing. The parents of the competitors, put their sons and daughters in different costumes, as if they’re a Ken and Barbie doll. They put enormous amounts of makeup and set endless hair appointments to make sure their children are as flawless as anything could

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